Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Mame-Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on contemporary France, Sub-Saharan Africa, Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, Media, and Urban Planning. She is the author of IdentitésFrançaises (Brill 2019) which examines the development of Afro-French identities and the works of second- and third-generation female immigrant writers of the banlieue. In 2015 she has co-directed Mariannes Noires: Mosaïques Afropéennes in which seven Afro-French women reflect on what it means to be Black and French, Black in France. She has also co-authored a photo series on Black French Islam.